Category: javascript

Speeding Up the JS Ecosystem, One Library at a Time — JavaScript projects are often so reliant upon dependencies that there are many opportunities to speed up swathes of the ecosystem by fixing small performance issues. Here, one of Preact’s developers shares how he’s been…

The State of JavaScript 2022 Survey is Open — JavaScript’s most popular annual survey is open once again. The results (2021’s, for example) are always fascinating to see, so go share your knowledge so we can see where JavaScript is headed. There’s a ‘guest’ mode…

What’s So Great About Functional Programming? — If anyone has excitedly insisted you check out Elm, PureScript, Haskell or F#, they may have caught Functionitis™ and want you to catch it too. James, author of the forthcoming Skeptic’s Guide to Functional Programming with JavaScript, sells…

Rome v10: Rust-Powered JS Linting and Formatting — A project founded by the original creator of Babel naturally provokes interest. Rome’s ambitious mission is to unify all the frontend dev tools you’d need into one, and formatting and linting is where they’ve started with this…

Together with  What is a ‘Realm’ in JavaScript? — One of those things you don’t need to know, but that will flesh out your understanding of JS under the hood. A realm is essentially the complete execution environment for a JavaScript program. Gal Weizman Then if…

Together with  Turbopack: A Rust-Powered ‘Successor’ to Webpack — With over 3 billion downloads, webpack is the current champion of the bundlers (though Vite has been rapidly advancing). Vercel found it too slow and has funded work on Turbopack. It’s a project to keep an…

Together with  Metaprogramming with the 2022-03 Decorators API — If you’re a Python developer, you’ll be miles ahead on this idea. If not, decorators provide a way to manipulate classes, fields, methods, and accessors at define time to give them extra, amended, or wrapped functionality…

Together with  ▶  Creating Your Own JavaScript Runtime with V8 — Want to join the pantheon of developers famed and esteemed for creating things like Node, Deno, and Bun by creating a JS runtime of your own? Erick takes us deep into the main moving parts…

Together with  🤔 If you wonder why people use Axios when the Fetch API is widely supporters, interceptors are just one of many features its fans cite. ‘I Turned JS Into a Compiled Language (for Fun and Wasm)’ — You can never be bored observing…